2019 Hunting goals

So with Boxing Day here and needing some fresh air (The mix of family farts is getting to me:sick: and the dog is sick of getting the blame:wtfsmilie:)
I took a walk and thought about what I’d like the coming year to bring in the way of hunting goals.
Here’s mine.
1 Have a great trip to Stewart Island
2 Try to see a buck while there and get it on the deck.
3 Shoot a lest one deer while home in NZ
4 Get out and get more stalking here in the uk
5 Organise a good weekend here for the French guns that have shown such great hospitality to me over the last five years.

Cheers

Worthy goals. Go get em..[emoji106]


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Number one goal for me is to get a sika. Been on a couple of fly in trips plus a few other little missions but no success. I hope you manage to get yourself a whitetail as that would be truly epic!

1) shoot a stag during the roar.
2) see the deer before they run away hahahah

professional spooker

My main goal is to heading down to the south island for the first time hunting. Getting back to a few spots this year that i always stay i must go back there one day. More time with my young fella on the hills

Get out and shoot my first deer, and take the young fella out to a range and get him prepared for his first hunting trip. (He's been to duck opening weekend the last couple years, but is dead keen to find something bigger than a rabbit)

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main goal is just spend more time hunting.

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To actually have a decent roar hunt this year. Haven't had a serious roar hunt in years, always something else going on during that time, mucking up the plans.

Same as last year.
Try and shoot a deer and catch a snapper off the beach in the same day.
Can shoot the deer but buggered if I can catch the Snapper. Might have to try catching the Snapper first before I run out of deer to shoot :(

Same goal as every year Shot a mature stag on doc land plus enough to keep my freezer full, and see some awesome sunsets and sunrises.

Yep, spend more time hunting. Both camera and rifle.

Goals for the year would be to shoot my first red preferably a stag. Also to get more time behind the rifle tuning my accuracy up. Cheers brothers hope everyone has a successful year

Shoot a red, sika and fallow in one year. Take my oldest (5 year old daughter) hunting.

I want to shoot a deer with the .303 grandad gave me before he passed away.

KEEP the freezers full
get my project rifle up and humming
big heavy timbered red is always on the list....but Im a pot hunter first so normally the first animal seen cops it and thats hunt over.
keep the mojo going with the dog.

1. Ensure a constant supply of venison and other wild game
2. Shoot a deer with my the ol' Lee-Enfield
3. Visit a special spot I've been thinking about for the last three years or so
4. Get the band back together as we haven't done a decent trip for 7 or 8 years.

My goal had been to help my daughter get her first deer, but we managed to do that 2 days ago, so I'll have to think up a new one now.

2019, get the work/hunting balance leaning more towards hunting instead of work. Get a hunt In down south ways for tahr. Get my boy lined up with a decent stag next roar.

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Same as last year.
Try and shoot a deer and catch a snapper off the beach in the same day.
Can shoot the deer but buggered if I can catch the Snapper. Might have to try catching the Snapper first before I run out of deer to shoot :(

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Deer sorted this morning. Now to go catch a Snapper :ORLY:

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Shoot a roaring stag with my 8 year old.
Keep on with training my indicator dog.
Keep fit and healthy.

to keep my freazer full, life has really got in the way of hunting over the last 6 month

40inch 12 pointer


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Didn’t you shoot a 40 inch eight pointer?

Shoot my first fallow .

Get my work / life balance in order

Get fitter and spend more fun and quality time with my wife

Ride my bike more ( motorbike )

Sika stag.

I am a noisy, smelly, panting, cursing, tangled up clodhopper in the bush. Deer here me coming from the adjacent island.

Oh, here comes Dave, they say, everyone, hang tight, carry on browsing, you’ve got 6 hours until he gets within a coo-ee of shot, he can’t see you, he can’t hear you, so spook at the last possible moment and frighten the bejeezus out of him, then bask gloriously in his bitter disappointment.

Better still, stroll out of the bush onto the track right in front of him, watch him fumble hilariously with his rifle which will get caught up on his backpack, then he’ll drop it, and just as he starts to line you up.... RUN LIKE THE WIND!

So, lot to improve on in 2019. A really decent Sika 8 pointer would be very very nice thank you.

I have a busy March/April as I want to shoot the service rifle Nationals at Easter, so the roar may come second. To make up for it, I want to shoot a deer at some stage this year with my M38 Swede, old school iron sights style.

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Didn’t you shoot a 40 inch eight pointer?

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Yep this year I did


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Some would consider that double dipping ! , but im with you yet to have a red up on my wall , my MISSION 2019 SHOULD I EXCPT IT ....which I have ..I mean I DO , is upping the tempo determined to get that red stag 12pt + that's first on the agenda , got a Stewart island trip after the roar happy being there a deer is a bonus , so the hard yards is swinging it with the misses to head up north to chase a sika stag after SI , around 25 years ago was the last time I had one of those sneaky buggers in my sights ... 2019 HOOAH

First thing is to get over this bloody back injury that has sidelined from hunting for the last 4 months hopefully in time for the roar.
Second if I get through said injury want to spend as much time out in the roar as possible and try and get at least a 10 pointer.
Also want to spend more time hunting and exploring new areas not just going to the same old spots.
A nice chamois is also on the list

I’m with you @bigred. I’m dealing with this dammed post-operation recovery and finding the mental aspects of seriously reduced capabilities very trying indeed... it also explains why I spend so much time waffling on here at the moment. I ended up back in hospital for two days over new year because I tore something important that was holding me together, by trying to do too much too soon...

The Roar is also my focus, I am determined to park the rest of life for a two week minimum period in April and just disappear into the bush and get myself back together, physically and mentally. Boredom is a killer. There’s only so much sub sonic shooting you can do in your back garden before you are simply wasting components!

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I’m with you @bigred. I’m dealing with this dammed post-operation recovery and finding the mental aspects of seriously reduced capabilities very trying indeed... it also explains why I spend so much time waffling on here at the moment. I ended up back in hospital for two days over new year because I tore something important that was holding me together, by trying to do too much too soon...

The Roar is also my focus, I am determined to park the rest of life for a two week minimum period in April and just disappear into the bush and get myself back together, physically and mentally. Boredom is a killer. There’s only so much sub sonic shooting you can do in your back garden before you are simply wasting components!

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Spot on with the boredom and inability to function probably being the worst part. I'm also in a period of unknown as well. Waiting to see a surgeon to see whether or not I'll have an operation or recover fully without one. It's not easy waiting for the phone to ring when patience is not something that possess much of.